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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Holland District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Holland website
37,176 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 1 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
We haven’t verified direct planning guidance links for this authority yet. Use its official website in Council sources.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
4 High Street Spalding PE11 1TW
Received 28 Sept 2012Rear of 56 St Thomas Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2XT
Received 22 Oct 2013The Sycamores Farmyard Church Gate Whaplode Spalding Lincs PE12 6TA
Received 6 Mar 20203 East Street Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0EN
Received 6 May 2010Elsom House 1 Broad Street Spalding
Received 23 Aug 200510A Barbers Drove South Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0BE
Received 4 Feb 1992Top Farm Holbeach Hurn
Received 7 Jun 200071 Church Street Pinchbeck Spalding
Received 24 Jul 1992FOXCLIFFE NEALS GATE HOLBEACH ST JOHNS SPALDING PE12 8SW
Received 23 Feb 2015Cley Hall Hotel 22 High Street Spalding Lincs PE11 1TX
Received 31 May 2012Mill Green Road Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3PU
Received 24 Feb 20177 Priory Road Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Jun 2002210 Winsover Road Spalding Lincs
Received 2 Dec 201130 Custom House Street Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9UJ
Received 8 Nov 1994EMMA JANES 62 WINSOVER ROAD SPALDING PE11 1HA
Received 12 Apr 2016Red House Farm Gedney Marsh Spalding Lincs
Received 16 Jun 2004West Drove South Gedney Hill Spalding PE12 0PL
Received 28 Jun 2017Sycamore Close Whaplode Spalding Lincolnshire PE12 6TB
Received 19 Sept 2025Manor Farm Holbeach Hurn Fleet Spalding Lincs PE12 8LR
Received 2 Sept 201619 MALLARD ROAD SPALDING PE12 6ND
Received 10 Aug 2017134 and 134A Bridge Road Sutton Bridge Spalding Lincs PE12 9SF
Received 27 Aug 2013Hydraulic House West Bank Sutton Bridge Spalding PE12 9QH
Received 27 Nov 2012Holme-Leigh Farm Huntsgate Gedney Broadgate Spalding, Lincs PE12 0DJ
Received 6 Oct 200311 Roman Bank Gedney Dyke Spalding Lincs
Received 14 Aug 2003Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for South Holland District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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